MMO Business Roundup: China’s gaming crackdown, NetEase Connect, Wild Rift plagiarism, and Valve’s anti-trust lawsuit
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news.
China: The Chinese government is continuing to widen its long-running crackdown on...
Whatever happened to Square-Enix’s Babylon’s Fall?
When we first tried out Babylon's Fall in beta, we said it was a decent enough starting point that needed some launch polish. Spoiler...
Final Fantasy XIV finally issues bans to some streamers over addons
So it's only been a couple days since Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida once more asked the community to avoid using third-party tools, which...
Open-source MMORPG sandbox Ryzom has lowered its subscription price – again
This spring, at least two major MMORPGs, RuneScape and EVE Online, made the bold move to increase their subscription rates as their playerbases grumbled....
Call of Duty now has its own line of scented candles from Wick & Skull
Hey there, Billy my man. You look down in the dumps!
"Gee willikers, Mr. Candleman, I sure am!"
Why, whatsoever could be the problem?
"Aw, it's my...
Destiny 2 kicks off the Guardian Games and answers weapon questions as the FTC investigates Sony’s buyout of Bungie
Let the games begin! The Guardian Games, that is, as the Olympic-like competition among the three classes of Destiny 2 kicked off last week....
Microsoft’s planned games streaming TV device could arrive in the next 12 months
Companies really want people to be able to stream games from the cloud to a television, but where Stadia ultimately failed, Microsoft believes it...
Final Fantasy XIV reminds players not to use third-party tools as the Dragonsong Ultimate race comes to an end
The race to collect the world first clear of Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) in Final Fantasy XIV has come to an end, but it's also re-ignited...
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s supposed MMO Otherside generated an NFT trainwreck
Yuga Labs, the tech firm behind the infamous NFT cesspool Bored Ape Yacht Club, is eager to rake in suckers potential players to its...
EVE Fanfest 2022: The EVE Online universe FPS is still in development
EVE Online developer CCP Games has had its eye on the first-person-shooter genre for over a decade at this point, starting with its PS3-exclusive...
Betawatch: Dysterra enters another beta testing phase
It's time to test Dysterra, don't you know? If you have been eagerly looking forward to a chance to get in on the game's testing,...
Star Citizen talks with its tool developers in latest video
If you're going to build something, you're going to need tools, and that's obviously no different in game development. The weekly video series that...
Vague Patch Notes: The negatives of MMORPG rogue servers
Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...
MMO Business Roundup: ArenaNet’s pro-choice stance, Blizzard’s new VP, and Nexon’s new CEO
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Human rights - ArenaNet and NCsoft have lent their voices - or at...
Gravity is apparently cracking down on Ragnarok’s rogue server community
The Ragnarok Online rogue server community is in uproar this week as Ragnarok's Korean developer and publisher, Gravity Co., has filed at least one...
Jack Emmert is apparently leading a new NetEase studio – and not Daybreak’s Marvel MMO
So remember how Jack Emmert, the former Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Daybreak in 2016, where he was heading up Dimensional Ink,...
AQ3D community manager quits after lodging sexual harassment allegations against Artix Entertainment dev
(We've updated this end of this article with the latest developments, which include the CM retracting her claim of workplace sexual harassment.)
Another potential sexual...
New York City just lodged a new lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard
A new lawsuit filed in Delaware by multiple New York City retirement and pension funds alleges in court something that's seemed like an open...
Riot doesn’t want the Runeterra MMO to ‘be the only game you will ever play’
Riot Games' Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has been dropping more words on Twitter to tease and hype the MMORPG he's spearheading for the company. The...
Destiny 2 studio Bungie issues forceful statement on workers’ healthcare rights
In the wake of news that the US Supreme Court is likely to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that safeguards people's right...
